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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
As part of its new Responsible AI Standard rules, Microsoft plans to remove Azure's facial analysis tools, which can guess gender, age, and emotional state — The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person's gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.
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Microsoft On the Issues, Cloud Computing Services, The Verge, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Engadget, OnMSFT.com, Protocol, Neowin, and ZDNet
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months — Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects — Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today …
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The GitHub Blog, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, PCMag, The New Stack, The Register, Protocol, Gizchina, BigTechWire, TechRadar, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @ashtom, @tuxtor, @gdb, @ericabrescia, @carnage4life, @github, @minimaxir, @tomwarren, and @joostschuur
| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
BlockFi CEO Zac Prince says the crypto lender “signed a term sheet with FTX to secure a $250M revolving credit facility” — - BlockFi secures $250 million revolving credit facility from crypto exchange FTX. — The crypto lender says the deal ‘bolsters our balance sheet and platform strength.’
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based …
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| Financial Times: |
South Korean prosecutors ban “dozens” of current and former Terraform Labs employees from leaving the country amid a probe into UST's and LUNA's collapse — South Korean prosecutors take action as they investigate embattled company behind the $40bn luna wipeout
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| Peter White / Deadline: |
Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground signs a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible; Spotify: “we declined to extend our deal” — President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama's Higher Ground has found a new podcast home. — The company, which is behind audio series …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Solana-based NFT marketplace Magic Eden raised a $130M Series B led by Electric Capital and Greylock at a $1.6B valuation, after a $27M Series A in March 2022 — - Magic Eden has scored a $1.6 billion valuation in its latest funding round. — The Solana-based NFT marketplace plans to launch on more blockchains.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, after an investigative report on the site's years of hosting nonconsensual sexually explicit videos — MindGeek, the internet company best known for operating Pornhub, said that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned.
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New Yorker, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Financial Times, and Input
Tweets: @ayagruber, @oliviapetter1, @tednesi, @lydmorrish, @cyjiong, and @hkanji
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon names Doug Herrington, a 17-year company veteran, as its new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, weeks after predecessor Dave Clark announced his resignation — Amazon vet Doug Herrington will become CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores — Amazon has named a new CEO of its retail arm …
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About Amazon, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, The Economic Times, and CNBC
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| Richard MacManus / The New Stack: |
The Khronos Group forms the Metaverse Standards Forum with Nvidia, Meta, Epic Games, Unity, Microsoft, W3C, and others, seeking to improve interoperability — Interoperability — or lack thereof — is a key issue in the nascent metaverse industry. The Khronos Group aims to solve …
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Tweets: @tomffiske, @nickstatt, @ponyweb3, @ricmac, @metaverse_forum, @vishalshahis, @ricmac, @alexvoica, @ricmac, @nickstatt, @whatleydude, @keithdsouza, @vishalshahis, and @unrealengine. Thanks:@ricmac
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
ProShares, which debuted the first bitcoin futures ETF in October 2021, launches the first ETF to short bitcoin in the US, on the NYSE under the BITI ticker — The exchange-traded fund will allow investors to hedge their bitcoin exposure, which may prove particularly pertinent given the sharp downturn in crypto markets of late.
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CNBC, Business Wire, ZyCrypto, Waivly, Coinspeaker, Decrypt, Wall Street Journal, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Crypto Briefing, and Forkast
Tweets: @timoharings, @ldrogen, and @rakeshlobster
| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Uber relaunches Uber Pool, paused in March 2020, as UberX Share in NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego, Portland, Oregon, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh — Uber suspended its shared rides service — Uber Pool — in the early months of the pandemic as a safety measure.
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Uber Newsroom, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Verge, New York Post, Bloomberg, and CNET. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Katie Collins / CNET: |
The EU says TikTok agreed to curb undisclosed ads by altering its branded content policy and ad reporting options and to ban promoting “inappropriate products” — After complaints that TikTok was breaching EU consumer rules, the company has worked with the European Commission to update its branded-content policy.
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European Commission, PYMNTS.com, and Tubefilter
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta adds new Instagram and Facebook monetization tools, and will take no revenue cut from paid events, fan subs, badges, and Bulletin until at least 2024 — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is rolling out more ways for creators to make money on Facebook and Instagram …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter plans to bring back its Chirp Developer Conference on November 16, 2022, in San Francisco; the previous Chirp conference was held in 2010 — As Twitter continues to woo developers back to its platform, the company today announced the return of its developer conference, Chirp.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Sources: three senior executives of Better.com resign, following other executive departures, mass layoffs, and a lawsuit alleging the company misled investors — Three more senior executives of digital mortgage lender Better.com have resigned, multiple sources tell TechCrunch.| Financial Times: |
SpaceX's Starlink aid to Ukraine triggers scrutiny in China, as Chinese firms rush to deploy satellite constellations into low-earth orbit to compete — ‘Silicon Valley Iron Man’ is under pressure over satellites as Chinese rivals close in on Tesla — In the days after Vladimir Putin …
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CNBC, TechCrunch, and Benzinga
Tweets: @petercampbell1, @chassnews, @alitahmizian, @martijnrasser, @bondhack, @rrajagopalanjnu, and @jkempenergy
| New York Times: |
An investigation into Chinese government bidding documents details its expanding surveillance apparatus, including ~500M cameras and extensive phone trackers — Times reporters spent over a year combing through government bidding documents that reveal the country's technological road map …
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New York Times. Tweets: @nytimes, @misaacstein, @mindingprivacy, @paulmozur, @meta_lab, @jjvincent, @paulmozur, @nytimes, @paulmozur, @rprose, @rmconservative, @kelleyashbypaul, @laurie_garrett, @chinafile, and @paulmozur
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of how Apple's approach to ATT is anti-competitive and harms legitimate targeted ad businesses integral to the new internet economy — Note: I've covered everything in this Article across a number of other Articles and Updates; however, over the course of conversations about ATT … | Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: |
France's antitrust watchdog declines to levy more fines against Google over paying publishers, as Google's commitments now address its concerns and are binding — Google brought an end to a dispute with publishers and avoided further fines after winning regulatory approval for pledges …
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